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Single-handed   /sˈɪŋgəlhˈændɪd/   Listen
Single-handed

adjective
1.
Unsupported by other people.  Synonyms: unassisted, unbacked.
2.
Without help from others.
adverb
1.
Without assistance.  Synonym: single-handedly.





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"Single-handed" Quotes from Famous Books



... gentleman you must be,' responded Blackbeard, satirically, 'to attempt unarmed, and single-handed, the rescue of a young girl from the midst of a hundred armed men. You must certainly be ...
— Blackbeard - Or, The Pirate of Roanoke. • B. Barker
... believe his self-accusing story; and if they did, what would it avail to pursue a being who could scale the Alps, live among glaciers, and pass unfathomable seas? There is nothing left but a pursuit till death, single-handed, when one might expire and the other be appeased—onward, with a deluding sight from time to time of his avenging demon. Only in sleep and dreams did Frankenstein find forgetfulness of his self-imposed torture, for he lived again with those he had loved; he endured ...
— Mrs. Shelley • Lucy M. Rossetti
... I was, I knew 'twould be mere folly to attempt single-handed to engage half a dozen, and I was thinking of running quickly to some of the members of the Captain's disbanded force and enlisting their help when the situation was changed by the arrival of old Ben Ivimey, the feeblest of the ancient watchmen to whom the ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... "it's not a bad notion in some ways, Rosie. Ther's jest the matter o' myself wrong. I 'lows you'd make a han'some return to Rube an' Ma. Guess you needn't to figger on me though. I'll stand by this old farm. I ken work it single-handed. An' I kind o' notion the ...
— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum
... voice was never loud, and, in point of stature, I have been from infancy, small. I have the greatest respect for Maria Jane's Mama. She is a most remarkable woman. I honour Maria Jane's Mama. In my opinion she would storm a town, single-handed, with a hearth-broom, and carry it. I have never known her to yield any point whatever, to mortal man. She is calculated ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens


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